Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica, 3, 2 (2011) 224-235 A Common Image Loss, A Common Memory Image Attempt for an Anthropology of Art Emese EGYED Babeş-Bolyai University Department of Hungarian Literary Studies
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[email protected] Abstract. Teilhard de Chardin writes: “Man, ever since he has existed, offers himself as a spectacle for himself. In fact, he has been regarding nothing else for millennia than himself”.1 In search for the meanings of regard, spectacle, and vision, we have chosen the syncretic field of art since works of art initiate mechanisms of cognition the duration of which goes beyond perception. This is what we have experienced in the case of Federico Fellini’s (1920-1993) film Rome (1972), and János Géczi A.’s (1953-2005) short story Mint szénagyűjtéskor az árnyékban [Like at Hay Gathering, in the Shade]. Fellini is a legendary figure in the history of film, while János Géczi A., the outstanding Transylvanian writer, editor of Kriterion and Polis Publishing Houses, founder and head of Kalota Publishing House, who passed away tragically early, is only known by few. His individual volumes are: Holdfényben (In Moonlight, 1987), and Patthelyzetek (Deadlocks, 1992). Keywords: knowledge, hypogeum, image vision, cognition, double author Writing changes in time even within a given sign system, it is simplified, its logic becomes different. An image however has the same elementary and immediate effect on its onlooker even after thousands of years. Cave paintings, to the best of our present knowledge, primarily had a role in community building, with mystical 1 Quoted by Péter Nádas as a motto to his lecture Az égi és földi szerelemről (On Heavenly and Worldly Love).